Managing the community

There has to be a balance somewhere between pretending that code is written by robots in a socioeconomic vacuum and spending more time discussing diversity and CoC than programming code.

In practice the pendulum will keep swinging back and forth as it usually does?

No matter what happens, open-source has an amazing evolutionary and longevity trick up its sleeve: forking. Better have too much of it than none at all. The latter has extremely often meant: extinction.